Dear Broom Knight

The purple-eyed guest chuckled abruptly: "How could that be? Are you joking? As long as His Majesty the King doesn't plan to abdicate, he would never give any royal family member such a high position. A subject can be propped up and then pushed back down. But an heir to the throne... that would be a major event. In this world, too many people don't want to see a king who has been in power for thousands of years."

Fabrice, of course, understood why he would say that.

A king of another country, who had sat on the throne for a full 60 years, once said: "My life has no joy other than conquest. Only by stepping on more and more territory under my feet can I find happiness."

Their White Dragon King of the Northlands was already quite good-natured and young... Of course, it might also be because the Storm Church was constantly causing him trouble... But His Majesty the King had also extended his hand to the neighboring Icewind Kingdom!

Many countries were worried about this.

Now he could still test the waters within the rules, but what about later?

After being king for hundreds or even thousands of years, after completely controlling the entire Northern Kingdom in his hands, what then?

When there are no voices of resistance within the country, naturally he would want to hear the wails from abroad.

In fact, the nobles of the Northlands were well aware of this.

Therefore, border counts like his grandfather would slightly distance themselves from His Majesty the King after inheriting their titles.

Although he would still heed His Majesty the King's every word, he used that little bit of distance to imply to the King that he didn't want the Northern Border to be too busy right now.

Only nobles with no future prospects or financial gains would sincerely want to expand outwards... Perhaps one day, nobles who could no longer support their families solely on their territories would be willing to go crazy with His Majesty the King, but right now, no one was willing.

The matter of Count Hamilton replacing Count Montes indeed caused many undercurrents.

Fabrice suddenly had a feeling... that more than sowing discord between him and Uncle Lowry, what the purple-eyed man in front of him wanted was for him to suppress Count Hamilton, who possessed royal blood.

It was just that he knew such words couldn't be spoken openly, and he could only slowly guide Fabrice to think it himself.

No wonder this guy had such an upright and righteous demeanor.

Moreover, Fabrice indeed didn't sense any evil or lewd, gloomy aura from the person in front of him or his attendants stationed outside.

Probably, it was another self-righteous fellow created by some church force, right?

However, Fabrice frowned slightly. Why did people always think Uncle Lowry was easy to deal with?

Using Uncle Lowry as an excuse, even relying on harming Uncle Lowry's interests to carry out their so-called 'righteous' deeds... Tsk tsk~ Truly courting death.

Didn't Fabrice know that Uncle Lowry's barony next door was wealthy and prosperous, and could even be said to be the place most Northerners longed for?

The ordinary farmers there probably lived more comfortably than the employed citizens of his Montes County.

But that wasn't because the barony had any development, but entirely because Lowry himself was rich... Wait, these guys didn't think they could force Uncle Lowry to spit out his money bit by bit through those illegal means, did they?

Even if one was a strong person and not afraid of a desperate fight from a weakling... still, what if?

Besides, there was no need!

These guys wouldn't think Fabrice was stupid enough to think he could turn Uncle Lowry into that kind of existence, right?

Putting aside Lowry's own violent and crazy personality, just... the strength didn't allow for such a possibility, right?

Even if there weren't those few dragons, even if Madam Yagris had some problems, Uncle Lowry's own strength was still there!

Fabrice couldn't help but recall the words this person had just said over and over again in his mind... and then suddenly thought of something.

A batch of new maids had recently entered Montes Castle.

Because the head maid was someone Madam Yagris had left behind, Fabrice didn't say anything about the housekeeper arranging his daughter to be the head maid's assistant.

Although he never thought of letting that head maid, who had always worked very well and diligently, step down, he had to give these maids, who had obviously joined forces to oppose his housekeeper, some warning.

Of course, these maids did so after understanding his attitude.

Fabrice had always had a feeling... that if his grandfather hadn't forced Madam Yagris's forces out of the central castle back then, and had continued to use her people, even with a scheming Pate, things wouldn't have ended up that way.

It wasn't a good thing for male and female servants to be too united.

That way, even if they saw something wrong, they wouldn't speak up.

What if it was just a misunderstanding? It wouldn't be good to harm their comrades.

Madam Yagris had also carefully investigated after everything was over. Not that many of those servants actually had problems.

But what really led to the final disaster was these servants' habit of covering for each other.

Therefore, there were never no traces in the castle, it was just that they were all covered up by these people helping each other, leaving behind a group of fools who were really kept in the dark, and even thought they were particularly clever.

Including himself, they were all so foolish because they were too arrogant.

Of course, there was no way to pursue anyone's responsibility. This matter could only be muddled through.

After all, his grandfather didn't care about these ordinary servants when he discovered the danger.

Except for a small number of lucky ones, the others were reduced to ashes along with the castle.

Fabrice, who got the results, never suspected that Madam Yagris would play tricks in it... To be honest, in terms of character alone, his parents and grandfather combined were probably not as good as that madam.

Moreover, the reason why Madam Yagris insisted on clarifying this matter was also to help him... Even if there was a Pate on the madam's side, it was obviously not related to this disaster in the slightest, and was obviously just unlucky.

On the contrary, Fabrice had to show the appearance of a 'victim' so that the civilians outside would understand that those servants didn't die particularly unjustly, nor were they purely abandoned by their master.

The former Count Montes ignored them because some of them had problems.

Then it was understandable not to care about these 'courting death' servants when encountering danger.

Could it be that a noble lord would risk his life for a group of lower-class people?

Although everything was over, that feeling of self-inflicted trouble still filled Fabrice's heart with vigilance.

Therefore, he now preferred to let the servants restrain each other... Even his most trusted housekeeper, Fabrice wouldn't let the other party dominate again.

He certainly knew that many mistakes were caused by his grandfather's selfishness, which led to the former housekeeper not being able to determine who was causing trouble when encountering some things... After all, those who could be caught by him were basically Fabrice's own father and uncle causing trouble, and then he could only choose to turn a blind eye.

But Fabrice couldn't push the responsibility onto his grandfather, who was the best to him, right?

Moreover, he was worried that even if he remembered this lesson, who knew if his descendants would have another one.

His family had already paid such a heavy price for this count's position, Fabrice didn't want to die with regrets like his ancestors.

But doing so also had aftereffects, which was that he had to analyze those messy information himself.

The servants only saw a corner, so their reports were bound to be nonsensical.

Therefore, as long as it was passable, Fabrice wouldn't ask for too much.

The housekeeper's granddaughter... Fabrice always felt that she might have other ideas in her mind, so she always came to him to say some irrelevant things.

Occasionally, the other party would mention her dissatisfaction with the maids Madam Yagris left behind: those people still often interacted with their former acquaintances, so they knew how comfortable the families of the Yagris Knights were living in Uncle Lowry's territory, and they also knew about the generous treatment Uncle Lowry gave his servants, and they would occasionally gather together to discuss whether their original decisions were correct.

Fabrice had never taken this to heart.

He had always been clear about Uncle Lowry's temperament. He would definitely make those he looked up to live better than anyone else, and conversely, of course, he would always want to make those he hated suffer.

His once beautiful teenage years were spent living in this fire and water.

There were times when he was almost beaten to the point of jumping into the moat, and there were also times when he was so happy that he wanted to fly into the sky.

Including his two unlucky younger brothers as well... Everyone just tacitly avoided their parents' eyes.

Fabrice really never hated his Uncle Lowry, and even sincerely appreciated his and Madam Yagris's care.

But it seemed that there were quite a few people who wanted to use his hand to坑 Uncle Lowry and Madam Yagris!

Fabrice gently raised his head and quietly looked at the handsome, somewhat evil face of the purple-eyed man opposite him: No wonder he never felt any sincerity from the housekeeper's daughter's performance.

It was all acting.

He thought the housekeeper had some bad intentions, so he forced his daughter to offer herself!

As a result, it was actually to pit the master for a pretty boy?